Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF!

"Radio Shack used to be the place to go to for stereo equipment back in the day. I guess there’s no need to evolve from those days..."

It would be nice to go back to those days. Not one thing I have from Radio Shack has failed. Not even a cable.

So typical how many audio lovers inevitably want to inflict their views as absolute science.  We can all learn from each other and respect each other’s successes...it doesn’t need to be divisive.  We all have different sensibilities about what we want to achieve in our systems.  There is no one size fits all folks.  Audio myopathy is a serious disease of the inexperienced and the pseudo intellectual measurement cognoscenti.  

dave_b,

"Audio myopathy is a serious disease..."

I feel you wanted to write "Audio myopia is a serious disease...".

Grover Huffman turned exclusively to cable manufacturing after a career in photography.  He found manufacturing electronics and speakers too time consuming/expensive relatively speaking to cable manufacturing.  He's been cable manufacturing since 2000.

Thank you Glupson...up all night with my sick pug 😳

They were definitely simpler times glupson. Back before we knew everything matters. Cables, jitter, isolation, rf. We were probably as happy with the sound back then as we are now. I ambiance driving the nicest cars from the 70s compared to today’s cars. Yet we were happy with them at the time. Homes had kitchens that were separated from the the living room, now we have open concept. Not many people had or would have considered a separate audio room, home theater room, etc. 

I still have my Radio Shack SPL meter works like a charm. 

Any way we can find out the name of that album which had nice story attached to it in one of the above posts?

"Any way we can find out the name of that album which had nice story attached to it in one of the above posts?"

Nevermind, wrong thread.

I have very high expectations. The highest praise one can give power cords and USB cables is they work. 

Lafayette's before Radio Shack.I used to go there when I was a kid early 60s.I work for HLDalis Whole sale dist.,They had everything, cables,tubes,Audio Equipment  ,great place to work at for $40 a week...LOL

My ears hear a difference, thats all the matters to me. 

I send all my cables to an ancient temple in Tibet. The cables stay with monks for 3 weeks. The monks meditate and pray with the cables. This makes a HUGE difference in sound quality and it also offers me a more deeply emotional - dare I say existentially profound - connection with my cables. Which results in ultimate sound. It’s a intensely spiritual experience and all you nay-sayers should try it. It may save you.

thx spc design

My cable came only from the purest engineering science at MIT, and all that count has been counted...

They are pure cable only, no magic allowed...It is a very concrete experience and all you cables afficionados must try it...

Is there a difference audible not explained by our numbers?  Not at all...

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Placebo effect is not proof.  Where is the double blind study? 

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been a naysayer a long time but decided to watch this since he claims to prove his point. But this guy’s argument is different than the usual cable claims (zingier highs! transparent midrange! tighter bass! etc).  He’s about reducing the noise floor of the overall system. IMO he makes an interesting case for this with his demonstration.  He doesn’t really make any qualitative sound claims past this; in fact, he points out that the resistance diff between zip wire and his go-to cable is negligible. Interesting post.  Got me thinking...

Dogma, we will keep praying for you and your cables, so that you may continue on your journey of enlightenment

@zgas-music.       I'm glad
It's good to see someone else who realises they don't know it all. Many here haven't grown up yet. I knew it all too when I was eighteen.

He’s about reducing the noise floor of the overall system. IMO he makes an interesting case for this with his demonstration.

This video is deceptive. He's showing us something A. G. Bell knew over 100 years ago. You twist wire and it helps reduce unwanted noise. It's why wire has been twisted in phone lines forever. Take the zip cord twist it like the other cables and like magic your radio antenna is no more.  18 year olds might not know this but old guys like me do. 

For years I have followed various forums discussing this topic. I recently upgraded my cables spending way more than I ever thought I would and I don’t know if it was money well spent but it made an enjoyable difference. Interestingly, on a CD I listen to frequently, there is one single piano note that has always been kind of jarring to my ears. It went away with the new cables. The volume stayed the same but the part that annoyed me was gone. In that particular instance I am 100% convinced I could tell the difference in any blind test between my old cable and the new one.

The other thought I have had on this subject is that some people just notice nuance and subtlety more. Or, it is more important to their listening experience. This occurred to me after playing music (drums) with a particular bass player. He would listen to a part on a recording and when he played it, I noticed it wasn’t quite the same. I don’t play bass so I can’t tell you what was different. The important thing is HE couldn’t notice the difference and insisted he was playing exactly like the recording. After that I realized that was a constant differentiator with other musicians I played with. The good players had a nuance and dynamic subtlety to their playing that others didn’t. At first I thought that was just because they had better technic and practiced more. And that was partly true. But the reason they had better technic and practiced more was because they could hear the subtly and nuance in other excellent musicians and wanted to achieve that. Those like my bass player friend, never noticed that nuance and never tried to achieve it. I could be way off base but I have an unscientifically proven feeling that it’s not so much what audiophiles hear as what they notice. Just like two people can walk into a room and notice or not notice very different things. So, I also think it is quite possible that whatever is being tested by the experts is missing something - maybe because these testers don’t notice what others may hear so have no understanding what to test for.

Again - these are my very unscientific thoughts on the subject. I clearly hear the difference in cables just like I can hear a difference in the same tube manufactured by a different company. Some I find musical, others I don’t. How does an engineer measure ’musical’ in this context?